“Flubber” by Alexy
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 1998 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 1998:
Title:
- Flubber
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Industrial Light & Magic
Description:
“Flubber” was an entirely new kind of challenge for ILM. The oozing, gelantinous quality of the title character dictated that he be animated using Metaclay. To our knowledge, this is the first time Metaclay has been used to achieve major-character acting in a feature film.
Additional Contributors:
Flubber Character Animation & Visual Effects Supervisor: Tom Bertino
Visual Effects Producer: Roni McKinley Visual Effects Co-Supervisor: Sandra Ford Karpman
Computer Graphics Supervisor: Steve Braggs Lead Technical Animator: Philip Edward Alexy Visual Effects Art Director: Scott Leberecht Digital Artists: Felix Balbas, Jeffrey Bennedict, Barbara Brennan, Marc Cooper, Natasha Devaud, Raul Essig, Howard Gersh, John Helms, Peg Hunter, Hayden Landis, Tia Marshall, Hiromi Ono, Ricardo, Ramos, Linda Siegel, Dan Shumaker, Doug Sutton, Chris Townsend
Digital Effects Animators: Chris Armstrong, David Byers Brown, Andy Doucette, Tony Hudson, Paul Kavanagh, David Latour, Steve Lee, Neil Michka, Magali Rigaudias, Glenn Sylvester, Kim Thompson, Tim Waddy, Andy Wong
Visual Effects Coodinator: Luke O’Byme Digital Camera Movement Supervisor:
Keith Johnson
Digital Camera Matchovers: Jodie Baird,
Randy Jonsson, Marla Selhom, John Whisnant Digital Rotoscope Artists: Katherine C. Baird,
Patrick Jarvis, Heidi Zabit
Visual Effects Editor: Mike McGovern
Avid Editor: Heidi Schmidt
Digital Color Timing Supervisor: Bruce Vecchitto Film Scanning Supervisor: Josh Pines
Motion Control Camera: Ray Gilberi
Motion Control Assistant: Caarl Miller
Set Construction: Randy Ottenburg
Model Supervisor: Mark Anderson
Stage Technicians: Dave Murphy, Berny Demolski Visual Effects Production Assistants:
Julie Creighton, Amanda K. Montgomery Computer Graphics Resource Coordinator:
Dani Morrow
Technical Assistants: Carole Johnson,
NIc Anastassiou, Matthew T. Bouchard, Jean Paul Beaulieu
Digital Plate Restoration: Nancy Jencks, Melissa Monterossa
Software Development: Florian Kainz, Zoran Kacic-Alesic, Stewart Bimam, Jai Natarajan, John Schlag
Computer Systems Engineer: Arnold Lee Scanner Operator: George Gambetta Negative Cutter: Doug Jones Projectionist: Tim Greenwood
Optical line-up: Andrea Biklian Computer Graphics Support Staff:
Ken Maruyama, Suzy Vissotzky Tooley
ILM Senior Staff: Gail Currey, Chrissie England,
Jeff Mann, Jim Morris
